Quiet thoughts

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Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government, freedom.
At the end of the 1980s, a wave of change encompassed a country boy from the Rust Belt.
As the gate for upward mobility was on the verge of closing, he struggled to move forward.
College, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship; HP, Apple, Microsoft.
To become part of the 1%, or even 0.1%, he sacrificed a lot, but also gained a lot.
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American History 1988

21% of American households owned computers, though this statistic targeted urban residents from cities with a population over 50,000.


However, the urbanization rate in America was quite high, and according to the results of the 1990 census, this rate was over 83%.


Therefore, the CIX Alliance easily inferred that there were at least 20 million households with computers in America.


But among these households with computers, only about 10% had network connectivity.


Anybody seeing this data would understand that the internet service market had immense potential.


After all, the 90% incremental market alone was incredibly attractive, with a huge potential customer base.


Even if the network connectivity rate for households with computers were to rise to 50%, that would mean tens of millions of internet users.


Everyone present was acutely aware that convincing households with computers to subscribe to network services


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